Came here on a Sunday night with my family initially planned to come for their Korean bbq but when we arrived, we were told their AYCE pricing is based on height and anyone over 4ft tall needs to pay full adult pricing which is around $40 per person. I have 2 kids which doesn't eat alot, which means my tiny 8YO son, who's the shortest in his class, will also need to pay full price. We thought this is extremely unreasonable so we opted to do a la carte.
We ordered a kimchi pancake, hot stone bibimbap, army stew, 10 piece boneless chicken with soy garlic sauce, one combo kalbi with beef ramen and an order of tuna roll as my son was nagging for them. The kimchi pancake was thin, soggy, and oily. When the bibimbap came to our table, our server asked me to check if there's rice underneath as the kitchen may have left them out. I honestly have never experience anything like this before. I tried lifting through the veggies and didn't see it at first but realized it's a very small portion of rice embedded right in the middle. I have never had to order a bibimbap and put the white rice (that had came with my army stew) into the stone pot myself because there wasn't enough in there. Another thing to note is it's also my first time seeing button mushrooms used for bibimbap. The bulgogi was not well marinated or seared and the flavors were odd especially when the bulgogi was not well marinated. The soup base of the army stew was lacked depth and the kimchi was not fermented and sour enough. The rice that came with it was only half filled which I have never seen in any other Korean restaurants before. However, they had big pieces of sausage and spam which was a surprise. But they completely forgot to add the ramen. However, when I asked our server about it, he offered to let me make my own ramen at their ramen station. Their fried chicken was also a flop. The chicken pieces were flat and a little dry. It did not seem like it was double fried as it wasn't very crispy and it had too much sauce on it. The Kalbi was a joke. It was cooked on our table but the cooktop wasn't hot enough and the meat was not able to get a proper sear. It was basically boiling within its own marinate and looked very unappetizing. Their beef ramen and tuna roll, I cannot comment much because they were for my kids but I did try one noodle which was a little soggy and the tuna roll was cut to all uneven heights and the tuna, although looked ok fresh, but it was for sure not a good quality piece of fish.
What a huge disappointment. The fact they price AYCE by height was very not children friendly and IMO very greedy. Their Korean dishes did not seem authentic at all. The restaurant also had no ventilation system at all so it was very smoky and smelly throughout the whole restaurant. The only positive thing was our server was great and made sure we were happy. Although it wasn't a very busy when we were there, we still had to wait for a long time before our food came out. They didn't even give us any banchan to start not to mention their banchan were very limited (only 4) and my kids were not thrilled they did not have any fish cakes. But our server gave us an order of dumplings on the house and we were thankful for that. He also took my army stew off our of bill since they left out the ramen. Overall, this is probably the worst Korean restaurant I've ever been to in all of North America including the ones I've been to in the middle of nowhere. The 1 star was really for our outstanding server and nothing else. If I can give a negative star for the food, I would. It was all MSG and I was dying of thirst throughout the rest of the night. My kids told me to never come back again. read more